Yield!? Military or Aviation boards
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Looks high grade to me what's the price that will help others who know more help you.
alexxx
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way too exotic to make fair estimate...
a lot...
a lot...
patnor1011
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Not to mention that IC from this kind of board may be worth several times its value in recovered gold when sold to collectors. If I would have them I would make sure to offer them for sale to CPU collectors instead of trying to recover gold.
Findm-Keepm
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patnor1011 said:
I totally agree - one doesn't see F-16 Avionics stuff on the market often - sell them whole in as-is condition. One Hughes chip in the pictures cost Uncle Sam 4300 USD (not that the gold is the reason - being a radar processor is what gave it some value...)
Unless Pakistan has an export ban on the stuff, sell whole.
Cheers,
glorycloud
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They are "eye candy" and eye candy sells on ebay! 8)
Eye candy indeed! I've wiped my screen free of drool 3 times already!
Even in my limited experience, if you are being offered these based on gold value go ahead and bid high. As already said the real value will be in resale to avionics collectors. I can only imagine how many times over spot that could be!
Good luck wicky, those really are some beautiful boards. Works of art even!
Even in my limited experience, if you are being offered these based on gold value go ahead and bid high. As already said the real value will be in resale to avionics collectors. I can only imagine how many times over spot that could be!
Good luck wicky, those really are some beautiful boards. Works of art even!
Findm-Keepm
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If you do consider recovery, consider Parylene conformal coating to be present - it's a pain to remove/deal with. I've dealt with it for years - not in the gold recovery, but in the repair of similar parylene-coated avionics circuit boards. Bendix, Collins, DEC, Eaton, Litton, Hazeltine, Hughes, Raytheon, HP - you name them, they used parylene.
Some of your boards shown are clearly 6-channel flight control computer boards - probably depot pulls when upgrading the flight control computers.
Cheers,
Some of your boards shown are clearly 6-channel flight control computer boards - probably depot pulls when upgrading the flight control computers.
Cheers,
Interesting post as I was just out in the garage working on something similar....only it's newer. Radar interface unit out of an F-15E.
Mine are in rough shape, as they spent some time at the bottom of a pit being smashed before they came to me. However, just searched one of the processors and list price is $795. Ouch. Too bad mine are all cracked I think!
Lots of Texas Instruments stuff, some Intel stuff...but no numbers I recognize immediately, and I've been playing with bench level electronics for 25 years. Most of it is thicker too, not the standard epoxy crap. There's a lot of IC's that are broken open, and probably 75% of them have visible gold plating surrounding the actual chip.
So does anyone have any approximates for yield on this type of stuff?
Mine are in rough shape, as they spent some time at the bottom of a pit being smashed before they came to me. However, just searched one of the processors and list price is $795. Ouch. Too bad mine are all cracked I think!
Lots of Texas Instruments stuff, some Intel stuff...but no numbers I recognize immediately, and I've been playing with bench level electronics for 25 years. Most of it is thicker too, not the standard epoxy crap. There's a lot of IC's that are broken open, and probably 75% of them have visible gold plating surrounding the actual chip.
So does anyone have any approximates for yield on this type of stuff?
Do you have any pictures to upload? That may help.
Can't help you then beyond saying that yes military/aviation boards of this type can have high yields.
